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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE
The NSF‘s CISE Directorate has called for proposals for Expeditions in Computing: The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computing and information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the Brain's Connections
Via the ACM: University College London maps the complexity of the brains connections. A new field called Connectomics. Which among other techniques uses MRI...
From Schneier on Security
New French Law Reduces Website Security
I didn't know about this: The law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Cameras in SmartPhones
Pelican's smart arrays and computational imaging. A good Technology review article on the future of small embedded cameras, like those in Smartphones: " ... The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 11
April 12 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security of the Senate Homeland...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Lindstrom on Building Smashable Brands
In FastCompany: How to Build an Unforgettable, "Smashable" Brand Identity (Hint: It's Not the Logo). Very good overview by Martin Lindstrom on the concept of a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research at the NIH: Funding Opportunities, Tips for Applying
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Peter Lyster, Program Director for biological modeling and bioinformatics in the Center for Bioinformatics...
From Schneier on Security
The CIA and Assassinations
The former CIA general counsel, John A. Rizzo, talks about his agency's assassination program, which has increased dramatically under the Obama administration: ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
XozGaming
XozGaming is an Imagine Cup game development team made up of two high school juniors from Lick-Wilmerding High School. Julius is the artist and Xander is the...
From Wild WebMink
? Balancing Transparency and Privacy
One of the keys to a successful open source community is appropriate transparency. A community with strong values around transparency will also be likely to respect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence With the Cloud and Internet as Data
Always intriguing Recorded Future blog spins some ideas about the Internet as data. I have had the opportunity to commission and examine some very large scale...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Final US Imagine Cup Teams Announced - 2011
After a trip to Seattle (space needle, Pike Place Market, etc.) last night the US Imagine Cup teams started today at the Microsoft store in down town Bellevue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Money With Mobile
In Fast Company Epicenter: Mobile is the next big thing? Wasn't it already? Well, yes, but it is getting much bigger and even more valuable if you just do the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Data Hubs
BuzzData writes about what makes an Open Data Hub. " ... Which open data communities are thriving?Which ones are flailing or stalled? What are reliable indicators...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-04-10
Groklaw Articles Ending on May 16th Pamela declares victory, resists the temptation to diversify and announces Groklaw will no longer publish original articles....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Abstraction in Data Management
Good, relatively technical overview of the concept with useful examples.
From Putting People First
Book: A new culture of learning
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown Publisher: CreateSpace – January, 2011)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Imagine Cup Finals 2011
I have been in the Seattle area (mostly Bellevue and Redmond) the past couple of days for the US Imagine Cup Finals. And it has been an amazing time with the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog